Intelligence2 Angela Merkel is Destroying Europe

BBC World News will broadcast a 45 min edit of this debate on 7th December at 09.10 and 20.10 (GMT) and on 8th December at 02.10 and 15.10 (GMT).

For the motion:

for the motion

Mehdi Hasan

Political director of the Huffington Post UK, biographer of Labour leader Ed Miliband and the author of an e-book on austerity myths

Euclid Tsakalotos

MP for the Syriza party in Greece, economic adviser to Alexis Tsipras, the party leader, and a professor of economics at the University of Athens

against the motion

Antony Beevor

Award-winning historian of the Second World War

Christine Ockrent

Belgian-born journalist and former chief operating officer of France 24 and RFI. She was also editor in chief of the weekly news magazine L’Express